I've noticed that as well. I will post something on one of these crevo threads and the evos will post to each other about my post and not ping me to it. Then if I want to see if anyone responded then I have to search the whole thread.
Overall I'd say that many (if not most) of the evos are just plain rude and their principle weapon is the weapon of ridicule rather than reason. I'm not surprosed that the religion professor in this article is an arrogant jerk as well. To top it off, posting a Darwin Fish on your school web site is a direct slam against Christians, as the Ichtuhs was an early Christian symbol used to secretly identify each other during times of Roman Government persecution. To post a Darwin fish is to express contempt for the Christian religion as a whole, as it is a desecration of a sacred religious symbol.
You are right, the evos tend to be facist while at the same time accusing their opponents of being the thing that they are. I suspect that the professor may very well be a poster on this forum. He certainly fits the profile.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I'd go beyond that, and say that the whole point is to ridicule--to find someone who doesn't know the score--do a gangup organized by IM, if they even need IM--and then high-five one another a la Beevis and Butthead.
And there's the uncanny similarity in discourse--the same one-liners over and over. "You need to get back to biology class." "You've lost what little credibility you ever had."
How is it, too, that they can show up on a thread, en masse, so quickly?
In sum--these engagements are in bad faith. They are not for exercising the restless arguing muscle ( a motive I assume of most arguers here, since it's my own motive)--they are a means of exerting control and domination over others. Yes, a kind of fascism, albeit rhetorical and limited to online exchange.
The "virtual ignore" thing appears unique to evos--at least, I've seen it nowhere else but from evos. In eight years, I've only asked one poster to leave me alone because he was calling me "Satan" and I thought him deranged (he wasn't an evo).
Any other expression you'd like to ban, while you're at it?
The Darwin fish is a perfectly fair piece of political commentary. It is not disrespectful, nor is intended to be. Evidently you want your symbols to be immune from any sort of comment. Sorry.
I happen to have a Darwin fish tee shirt on today, but your post reminds me I should also add one to my University of Nebraska web page.
You are right, the evos tend to be facist while at the same time accusing their opponents of being the thing that they are.
The sheer self-unawareness of this is hilarious.